Possible Clues:

• State provides rescue vessel, plus a new special group?
• Little Rock is the capital of this US state
• Southern US state with the capital Little Rock
• Major tributary of the Mississippi
• State two answers: scores missing first rounds
• A state? A right state!
• A right pursued by one US state and another
• A king as head of one state or another
• Pine Bluff setting
• Where Hope may be found